Cooling device for internal-combustion engines



Nov. 16 1926'. 1,607,422

F.W. ANDERSON ET AL COOLING DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES Filed Jan. 20, 1926 Patented Nov. 16, 1 926.

ta nt PATENT CFFE FRIDII'IJGF V. AIiTDEPJSQN, OF'EAU CLAIRE. WISCONSIN, AND CHARLES H. ORDAS, OF

CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

CGOLING DEVICE FOR, INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES.

Application filed January 20, 1926. Serial No. 82543;

This invention relates to cooling devices for int rnal combustion motors, and the said invention has particular reference to the cool ing of water used in tanks in which internal combustion engines may be submerged, or in association withwhich they may be installed, to be cooled by the volume of water vithout employing water circulating mechanism such as pumps or especially constructed thermosiphoning apparatus.

It is an object of this invention to provide means for directing air to the interior of water tanks of the character indicated when employed on moving equipment such as trucks, railway cars or vehicles.

Primarily, this invention is of importance when used in connection with power plants or engines installed for driving what are known as section motor cars, and in this invention, provision is made for increasing or diminishing the air delivered to the tank, or for closing the mouth of the tank when that is desirable, as it may be in cold weather.

It is a further object of this invention to provide novel means for retaining air defleeting meansv in different positions of adjustment so that a greater or less degree of air deflection to the interior of the tank nay result, according to the speed of the car, the velocity of the wind, or the like.

With the foregoing and other obje'ts in view. the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In descrilfng the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application 7 in like characters denote corresponding in the several views, and in which "e 1 illustrates a view in elevation of a irae'ment of an equipment showing a tank with a mouth and a device embodyhe invention applied thereto; 7

gure 2 illustrates an enlarged deta led svtronal view of the tank and a device embodying the i vention applied thereto; and

Figure 3 illustrates a sectional View of" the device on aline 3-3 of Fig. 2.

in these drawings, 5 denotes a tank of conventional form having a bowl-shaped mouth or spout 6 secured thereon communieating with the interior of the tank. The aforesaid parts may be secured together through the employment of fastenings 7 which may consist of studs rising from the tank and projecting through apertures of the -iange of the spout, or bolts of suitable type may be employed.

A deflector 8 having a concave face 9 is adjustably mounted in the spout, the said deflector having apertured bosses 10 and 11 opposite each other in order that the deliector may be pivotally mounted in the mouthot the spout. Pivots 12 and'l3 have their ends anchored in the bosses 'lOand 11, and, in the present embodiment of the invention, the joint is shown as screw threaded. The outer end of the pivot 13 is threaded to engage a nut ld by which the parts are held in assembled relation, whereas the pivot 12 is elongated, as compared with the aivot 13, and it is provided with threads to engage a nut 15. A spring 16 encircles the pivot 12 between the nut and the outer surface of the bowl, and through the adjustment of the nut 15, the tension of the spring may be increased or diminished in order that pressure on the contacting surfaces of the operating parts may be increased or diminished for regulating the f iction, a condition which will insure that the deflector will. be held in different positions of adjustment by said frictional engagement. ,7

The relation'of parts is such, in the present embodiment of the invention, that the deflector will act as a cover when it is adjusted to an appro *imately horizontal position, and such adjustment is made when it -1s desired to exclude air from the interior the tank. Such condition may be desir- -ble lll cold weather and certainly until the ngine developed a temperature which would eat the contents'oi the tank.

t \Vlll be apparent from an inspe'tion of pro s the in an approximately horizontal position, or at other angles with relation thereto. and that by reason of the adjustment, the air :o'llecterl an'l defiecteclduring the travel of (l21Wl-]1.'TS that the deflector may be set thereoin the said deflector being concave and a size to close the said month when in tat position ancl extending approxilistantly above below the f 1 position.

I device for internal coinbnstion engii a tank having an opening, a howl-like mouth on the tank having an ering; with the open ng in the extending l101iZ011tlli V the a deflector in the opening; the said deflector being; concave and of a size to close said opening when in horizontal position. and means for pivotally mounting: the detector on the tank v ith relation to saitl opening tot 2 positioning the deflector to extend appmxb lnately equiclistantiy above anti heiovf the top of the opening when in ver'ical position, '1'. In a cooling device for internal co bust-ion engines, a tank having an 0?." a deflector in the opening, the said A being concave and of a size to c i it s: opening when in horizontal no ition, me; o for pivotally mounting the cletlectoi on the tank with relati n to said openingto; poitioning the deflector to extend apex-o: oatel eqnidistantly above and below the o enin When in vertical position, and means for holding the deflector in clifi'erent positions of adjustment.

FRIDTHJOF W. ANDERSQBT.

CHARLES H. ORDAM. 

